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Author Friedemann-Sánchez, Greta, 1966-

Title Assembling flowers and cultivating homes : labor and gender in Colombia / Greta Friedemann-Sánchez
Published Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 207 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- Flowers in the global assembly line -- Assembling flowers -- Disciplined labor, identity, and gender -- Land, housing, money, and social networks -- Cultivating homes -- Epilogue : gendered development
Summary Explores the links between agro-industrial employment in the context of economic adjustment programs and the individual experience of employment and economic change at the household level. This ethnographic study challenges the academic consensus that tra
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-199) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cut flower industry -- Colombia
Women -- Employment -- Colombia
Sex role -- Colombia
Cut flower industry
Sex role
Women -- Employment
Colombia
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005033716
ISBN 9780739132975
0739132970